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b 1 . Above dark brown; beneath olive shaded 

 ashy brown ; tail with some broadish white 

 ends to the feathers ; culmen 0-9 inch, 



wing 2'4 (Seychelles) dussumieri, j . 



c 1 . Above olive. 



a 2 . Tail nearly square. 



a 3 . Above greener ; no white near the eye. 

 a*. Throat mottled with dark centres to 

 the feathers ; culmen 0-65, wing 1-9, 

 tarsus 0-6 (Gt. Comoro Is.) . . . humbloti, 2 . 

 b i . Throat uniform. 



a 5 . Darker ; pectoral-tufts chrome 



yellow ; beneath pale olive. . . olivacea, $ 2 . 

 Z) 5 . Paler; pectoral-tufts sulphur 

 yellow in adults of both sexes, 

 but absent in young birds ; be- 

 neath olive shaded ashy white. . obscura, J 2 . 

 b 3 . Above browner ; region of eye and 

 throat whitish ; breast whitish with 

 dark centres to the feathers ; culmen 



08, wing 2-55 cyanolcema, 2 . 



b 2 . Tail graduated ; outer feather falls short 



of tip of tail by not less than the length 



of the tarsus. 



c 3 . Breast buff: throat mottled with the 



black bases of the feathers ; culmen 



0-55, wing 1-9 nawtoni, 2 . 



d a . Breast and under tail-coverts olive 



buff; culmen 07, wing 2-3 .... hartlaubi, 2. 

 e 3 . Centre of breast and under tail-coverts 



yellow reiclienbachi, young. 



b. With metallic colours confined to the head 

 and throat. 

 d 1 . Tail nearly square. 



c 2 . Back yellower ; entire upper half of the 

 head metallic green. 

 f 3 . Throat green, like the entire head and 



neck varticalis, $ ad. 



cj 3 . Throat white, slightly paler than the 



breast verticalis, 2 ad. 



d 2 . Back browner ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 brown. 

 h 3 . Larger; wing 2-7 ; pectoral-tufts very 



pale yellow cyanolcema, $ ad. 



i 3 . Smaller; wing less than 2-5 ; pectoral- 

 tufts yellow and orange red mixed. 



